People that want to preserve amateur athletics often say that student-athletes are compensated, contrary to appearances, because just about everyone on a top tier sports team is getting an education on an athletic scholarship (even the kids at Harvard, these days). If they get a free ride, isn't that enough? Not quite. »3/23/13 3:08pm 3/23/13 3:08pm

Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim, authors of the Freakonomically inclinedScorecasting, explore the peculiar power of round-number milestones and how they affect a ballplayer at the plate.»1/31/11 3:00pm 1/31/11 3:00pm